tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136983861650322458.post5667156961601154718..comments2024-02-14T03:19:28.395-05:00Comments on Vagabond Journeys: Flip The DialDBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09144446186279708019noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136983861650322458.post-28645378539386666492012-09-18T22:52:48.666-04:002012-09-18T22:52:48.666-04:00Chronic pain is very depressing. Mine cannot be co...Chronic pain is very depressing. Mine cannot be controlled by drugs, much as a 'ghost' pain from an amputated limb it is 'created' in my brain. <br />The only method I have found effective is to think of something else, anything else, hard!<br />I turned to writing, which believe me is very hard for me. In order to focus on the subject, another thing that I find very hard, I use photographs.<br />I choose to photograph nature because it is there that I see such fascinating things that my mind is stimulated to compose the words; occasionally music has the same effect.<br />I now write within the more rigid framework of quintuplet poetry because I need a scaffold for the words and it again helps me to focus on the subject. <br />Sometimes I wish I didn't 'see' the 'picture within the picture' because it is hell trying to visualize it in words yet I am driven to keep trying.<br />I consider myself lucky to have found something so good at bringing the pain under some degree of control and preventing me from falling down the spiral of depression of the 'poor me' syndrome.Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12684015407540676758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2136983861650322458.post-34005985408506334492012-09-16T00:38:41.152-04:002012-09-16T00:38:41.152-04:00I've heated with wood a long time and still so...I've heated with wood a long time and still sometimes I'm surprised I can open the stove door to nearly spent coals and, with the right tools, knock a blaze out of them. Probably a science to it. Geo.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16221314320558128986noreply@blogger.com